And now a replica of the Starship Enterprise may be landing in San Diego next year.

The news was first beamed up by Space.com, which reports a display version of the bridge from television's "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is being refurbished by a group called New Starship. (No word on whether their theme song is "We Built This ... Copy.")

Here's what space.com contributor Elizabeth Howell wrote:

Nothing's confirmed yet, but organizer Huston Huddleston said he is in talks with the San Diego Air & Space Museum to bring the bridge there in the middle of 2014. It will remain there for a year, the plan goes, before possibly hitting the road for other locations.

Huddleston told Howell that the exhibit would include the bridge, the transporter room and Captain Jean-Luc Picard's personal quarters. A museum spokesman told her that the talks are ongoing but nothing has been finalized yet.

The Los Angeles-based New Starship raised $68,000 on Kickstarter to refurbish the Enterprise bridge and turn it into an educational interactive museum. Here's an interesting interview Huddleston did with Tested.com in 2012 on how (and why) the restoration is going.

Restore the bridge!

Are people into it? Do Vulcans have pointy ears? The news quickly brought:

Hope

Star Trek bridge may be coming to San Diego. Hope we can rent it out for parties. ow.ly/kwPOW

The San Diego Air & Space Museum actually housed a version of the Enterprise bridge from the original "Star Trek" television series as part of a broader exhibit several years ago. It opened in June 2008 but was gone by January 2009.

Yet that was before J.J. Abrams breathed new life into the franchise, so maybe fans would make the attraction more popular this time around. Speaking of which, if you're a Star Trek fan and you haven't heard about the new Trek Initiative, do I have a tribble, er, treat for you.